Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-21
ABOUT HYDROPHOBIA.
A Dealer in Dogs Says the Disease is Not
 Incurable-Patients Die of Fright.


 cars, says the New York World, can notice in passing through Broome street, a few cages filled with chickens piled together above cellar door, and sur mounted by the remains of what was once dog, who is there to signify to the passing multitude that Mir. James Young has more and fresher canines for sale below.
 That dog was once triumph of the taXidermist's art. and except that his bark was out of order, no one would know that he had obtained Niryana; but wind and weather have worked sad ravages, and left him bald as an old kid glove. He sags in places, and his wan, glass eyes bulge out too much, but he seems to remind the world that his owner holds some original views on the subject of dogs who are called mad.
 "There never was dog what was called crazy but you'd find when you'd cut him open he'd something wrong in his stawmick, something that oughtn't to be there." said the dog-fancier didac- tically. When Dr. Mott, who is experi- menting with Pasteur's methods in this city, made post. mortem examination of the dog who bit the first child he in oculated, he found hard ball in it's stomach, which appeared to be com posed of the hempen fibers of door mat. This was so remarkable con- firmation of MT. Young's statement that he was induced by a reporter to tell about it.
 "Yes. saw that" said the dog g-dealer, in reference to Mott's statement. "And it's just like l said before. When dogs what folks calls mad, you'll all ways find a ball like that in his staw- mick. Sometimes it's hair, sometimes it's wool, and sometimes it's the door mat, but the troubles always the same Here's the way it is: A dog that's kept chained up in his kennel or in a city house, the moment you let him out where there's grass you'll notice he will eat lot of the coarsest grass he can find, and then he goes little further and throws it up. Now, that's his in- stinct He knows he needs medicine because shut up like that he doesn't get proper exercise, and most times not the right food, either so he knows he's got to clear out his stawmick some way Dogs get great deal of their own hair inside of them from biting it, and those what's in the house breathes in lot of lint and dust of the carpets. Well, of course, that don't digest, and they begin chewing the door-mat or eating straw, an it forms a lump that the juices in the stawmick makes harder and harder. Why, many's the time I've seen Jumps taken out of a dead dog so hard you couldn't break them with a hatchet Now how do you think you'd act with one of them Jumps in your insidesp
 'I remember q year or two ago in Jersey man had pair of greyhounds and he'd refused $1,000 for one of them. Well, he tolegraphed some doctors who were interested ill the matter. that the dog had gone mad and was chained up in his cellar. The owner was afraid it might burst through the window, and so shot it, and sent it warm to the doe tors for dissection. We'll, now, inside that dog they found a big rag. Grey hounds have to be dieted to preserve their shape, and one day when he was famished the oook dropped her greasy dish-rag in his food by accident, and he bolted it down with the rest.
 ''Dr Mott was here himself the other day to buy some rabbits," continued -oif7e-dog merchant, brandishing his ssi;<tl, at the noisy crew who were trying b interrupt the flow of eloquence, ''andN asked him had he ever seen q mad dog that didn't have something in his staw- mick what had no right to be there? Well, mo- he said; he never had, now that he came to think of it."
 Says 1: Doctor, there's lots of im- | oi1, tiO11 vvh hot bol,nc to I-ilI 1-our tients, and says he: You're quite right, Young, there is And told him he was free to come down here any time and inoculate me with virus from any of his rabbits or from hls dogs either, and that showed pretty plain whether believed there was such thing as hy. drophobia. He asked me whether I'd ever seen a man with hydrophobia-a and said if had 1 never would forget it.
 Well, now I'm not going to say that folks can't get blood-poisoning from the bite of dog. because know they can. 1 Come here, Peteri' and he took up his little blind Yorkshire terrier that was running about the floor and opened his mouth. Now you see that black stuff round the top of his teeth? We'll. some dogs has that and some hasn't; it's what we call a foul or canker mouth. Some is born with 1t We'll, if dog bites you so as that gets into the bite you're apt to have blood-poisoning un- less you're careful with the wound, but if it's properly washed and cauterized there ant bit of danger. For that matter, if you was to have bite from a man whose teeth had tartar on them you'd run great deal bigger risk. Dr. Mott said himself that he rather dog would bite him than man; it wasn't as dangerous.
 'I knew man whose dog bit him in the lip. The place was healing up and he hadn't thought anything of it til about week after, some fool said tc him: By Jove! l'd hate to have that wound in my lip. You stand good chance for hydrophobia. Well, the man got as white as a sheet and ter days after they tell me he had to be snfethered in the hospital
 ''Now,you can just say this in the pa per-" as the dog-dealer finished his lect ure on hydrophobia, that what will cure mad dogs or prevent 'em from going mad is to give them handful of table. salt whenever they look sick and | drOonV That'f1 aot as an apatic an6